possible
IPA: pˈɑsʌbʌɫ
noun
- (colloquial, rare) A possible choice, notably someone being considered for a position.
- (colloquial, rare) That which is possible for somebody.
- (rare) A particular event that may happen.
adjective
- (usually not comparable) Able but not certain to happen; neither inevitable nor impossible.
- (comparable) Capable of being done or achieved; feasible.
- Being considered, e.g. for a position.
- Apparently valid, likely, plausible.
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Examples of "possible" in Sentences
- '_Si c'est possible ... si c'est possible_ ... a double door with a grille?
- The game plan is to hit it as far as possible and as close as possible on every single hole.
- * Leave this file running on the browsers of as many computers as possible for as long as possible*
- We're all hands averse to bloodshed, and we intend to work our business without it, if possible -- you understand, _if possible_!
- It is possible, under such circumstances that a Peace Party might arise; and perhaps just _possible_ that England and France might give weight to such a Party [628]. "
- So Le Mercier de la Rivière says, in 1767, that the ultimate end of society is _assurer le plus grand bonheur possible à la plus grande population possible_ (Daire's _Économistes_, p. 470).
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- It is certainly possible for an anxious straining ingenuity to _imagine_ such cases; and where is the rule of law, which, in the infirmity of human institutions, cannot be shown capable of occasioning _possible_ mischief and injustice?
- That turning of the oblique globe askance, which Wesley represents as the cause of extreme heat and cold, was the very thing to _prevent_ those extremes, or to reduce them to the lowest possible point, and to secure to every part of the globe, as _far as possible_, an _equal_ amount of light and warmth.
- Just as the past tense ampliates the subject to include past as well as present supposita, modal verbs ampliate the subject to possible supposita, as do verbs such as ‘I understand’, ‘I believe’, and indeed, notes Albert of Saxony, verbal nouns ending in ‘-bile’: ‘possible’, ‘audible’, ‘credible’, ‘capable of laughter’ and so on.
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